ABC News 24 lifts with QANTAS coverage
Viewers were happy to heap praise on ABC News 24 for their coverage of the QANTAS shutdown.
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ABC News 24 increased its share on the weekend as viewers began to seek out information on the QANTAS shutdown.
It increased to 2.7% on Saturday night, up from 1.1% the week before.
The dedicated news channel had rolling coverage on the crisis from Saturday afternoon and it was still running into the early hours of this morning and thereafter.
ABC News 24 also covered the death of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan and the CHOGM event.
A number of readers were happy to heap praise on the channel for their dedicated coverage.
Jonno: loving ABC news 24 for the big news stories now.
Saz: Kudos to ABCNews24 for thier coverage – after all the justified criticism from Media Watch on thier coverage of stories, they have really come to the party. It is about time the ABC use the channel for this sort of thing and keep the rolling coverage. Channel 9 has also been very good.
Amev Sydney: ABC24… excellent ongoing coverage…
Craig: Great coverage from ABC24, which is what we needed.
Curtis of Brisbane: Thank goodness for ABC 24 – the Seven and Nine Network coverage has been quite ordinary, they insist to stream Sunrise and Today into Queensland on one hour delay, at least 24 is live. A national crisis and our networks are more concerned with ratings. 24 for me!
Timmy: Agree with Curtis. ABC News 24 has finally started operating on weekends. Well done!
Kaylen: ABC News 24 deserves some type of award or something. They’re still going. Their reporters, staff and coverage have been absolutely brilliant.
QANTAS expects to begin resuming flights from 2pm AEDT.
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……………….I said it b4 and I’m quite pleased that the ABC has news 24 hours a day. Why because I like to know what”s going on in the world it’s Not unusual for me to watch the news on my computer at 1.30 AM and I’m Very pleased to have this service and I want to say thank you channel 2 and it’s Great………………
@Craig – Maybe it’s because in the UK (correct me if I’m wrong) but people have to buy an annual TV licenses to use their sets? Here it’s all free after you get the TV home.
I’d love to see Sky News on FTA like it is in the UK.
Is there any chance in the future that FTA bandwidth will be allocated outside of 7,9,10,ABC,SBS like it is in the UK?
Why do we only have 14 FTA channels when the UK has over 40 ?
@jonno
I get your point, but Sky’s reach is often underestimated – in many weeks Sky matches or beats ABC News 24 in the Sydney market – pretty amazing for a pay-TV channel…
@ Dean
Sky may do some great work but guess what. The majority of Australians simply cannot watch it because they cannot afford pay tv. ABC news 24 is getting attention because it has a huge reach. The majority of people now can get digital TV so when a big story happens they have access to a 24 hour news service.
Sky had a 30 minute interview with Joyce and 2 interviewers in the same room (the Australian Agenda studio) – not via a lagged live cross. Boom! This was as well as continued coverage which I have to say was quite smooth with no major technical issues. Despite having few resources, Sky ran their own stories for the most part and had experienced reporters on the job (namely Celina Edmonds on the desk, Brooke Korte who gave analysis on the business side of things at the desk, David Speers at CHOGM in Perth, Aaron Young at the Fair Work Australia tribunal and other reporters at major airports). All the attention seems to go the the ABC by default but Sky does some great work which largely goes unnoticed….
Dean-
Inside Business, on ABC/ABC News 24 had one also. Lasted for over 20 minutes. 🙂
Was rather in-depth, I thought. 😉
Perth had a Nine news special from Sydney on 3 hour delay!! ABC24 is all we have here (other than pay tv)to get the latest/live news.
Yes but who had an in-depth studio interview with Alan Joyce on Sunday Morning? Sky News.
As soon as I heard about the Qantas announcement on radio on Saturday afternoon, I switched over to ABC News 24 where I found immediate and comprehensive coverage of this major event. I continued to dip into and out of it all weekend. Brilliant coverage and analysis and well done to the News 24 team whose calm, measured and knowledgable reports, interviews and bulletins were, I am sure, appreciated by many Australians. This is what ABC News 24 should be all about – the station that you turn to for major news events. And last night’s (Sunday’s) ABC News on ABC1 killed the Seven News bulletin broadcast an hour earlier (I’m talking the Melbourne bulletins here). ABC correspondents reported from airports around the world – Los Angeles, Heathrow and Bangkok – with Sally Sara, the ABC’s Afghanistan correspondent reporting from Kabul on the sad loss of the three Australian soldiers. Great effort. Just shows how important it is to have ABC correspondents overseas reporting events from an Australian perspective.
Yes….excellent coverage from ABC24….my go to for news channel….
Did the Qantas thing…..but yes…also CHOGM…..and sad breaking news from Afghanistan….
Have to agree with Rick2….the audio issue with not being able to hear questions asked ….does make it difficult from a viewing point……
Also a large message on the bottom of the screen during CHOGM and interviews….instead of putting up who the speaker is …and what their title is….
Again…if you are not sure of who is speaking and why….loses some relevance…
ABC News was great, and so was ABC News Radio, which relayed what was on ABC News 24. After a lot of criticism, kudos for putting up a great performance
Good coverage on News 24 especially because they lifted their geo-block for those viewers wanting to stream from overseas
Certainly agree with a great effort by ABC24 on short notice and on a Saturday afternoon when staff numbers would have been lower. Like the Tsunami, this is when most people appreciate the continuous, immediate FTA coverage.
One overall gripe though, I wish they could come up with a solution for poor audio at press conferences. It’s great to have live coverage but journos asking often long winded questions that mostly can’t be heard is annoying. Without hearing the question, often the responses don’t make sense.
Nine had a shocker on Twitter on Sunday. @9newsbrisbane tweeted that it was showing an interview with Alan Joyce live. When I pointed out that it couldn’t possibly be live (Brisbane are on an hour delay from the AEDT broadcasts) they replied “Hi there. The live tweet was my bad. Forgot for a few minutes that we’re in a different time zone now. No dishonesty intended”. Yeah right.
I also agree that ABC News 24 stepped up their game this weekend.
Jeremy Fernandez stated to look very tired at 2am this morning! I must give it to him and the team at News 24… they did an excellent job over the weekend.